Type of hepatitis usually found:

•  Hepatitis A is transmitted via fecal-contaminated, food, and water in conditions of poor hygiene. For example, the infected hand touching with food and water will spread the virus to other people who take those things. The contaminated food and water is usually found in poor hygiene restaurant and nursery. Hepatitis A virus will cause acute symptoms and recover on their own without developing the chronic hepatitis.

Symptoms

Hepatitis A will cause acute symptoms which include anorexia, nausea, weary, and jaundice. Usually, the symptoms will develop immediately and violently such as high fever, headache, feeling pain in muscle and sharp pain around the bottom of the breastbone, darker yellow urine, and pale feces. These symptoms will persist for about 2 weeks – 3 months and recover on their own without developing any complications.

•  Hepatitis B can be spread by sexual contact, contact with infected blood, sharing contaminated needles, using non-sterilized equipment for hemodialysis, body piercing, body or eyebrow tattoo, using contaminated razor and toothbrush, including from and infected mother to the baby during delivery.

Symptoms
Hepatitis B usually causes acute symptoms which include nausea, vomiting, weary, and jaundice. Most of hepatitis B patients will get fully recover and develop immunity. However, small amount of infected people will become the carrier. Infected children who may have no symptoms presented will become the carrier and risk to develop cirrhosis of liver or liver cancer.

•  Hepatitis C is spread through blood transfusion and hemodialysis or by sharing contaminated needles and tattoo equipment. It is found that more than 90 % of hepatitis C patients and infected through blood transfusion.

Symptoms
Hepatitis C patients may have no symptoms at all. The symptoms are usually found in the examination of liver dysfunction or after developing of cirrhosis of liver or liver cancer.

Treatments
If you develop theses symptoms, immediately visit the doctor for specialist treatments. The patients should have blood test to monitor liver function that can indicate an inflammation of the liver. For acute hepatitis, there is no specific treatment but the doctor will only give medication to relieve the symptoms. Generally, the patient will recover after taking enough rest and food.

Vaccines
For the patients who are the carrier of viral hepatitis, the vaccines will cause no advantage and the disease will not disappear.